noun / verb
ranch
RANCH/ræntʃ/
A large property used to raise livestock.
The ranch has hundreds of cattle grazing across its open pastures.
Etymology
Rancho originally named people eating together, apparently extending to a community living and working together and then its settlement or farm. Its use for a herding operation in Spanish America leads to the livestock-farm meaning.
In context
We'll go on a ranch tour all the way around. Health of these cattle is huge, you guys.
More examples
- They raise sheep on a ranch in Wyoming.
- Her grandparents ranched in Montana for forty years.
- Several nearby ranches share access to the river.
Forms
ranch · ranches · ranched · ranching
rancher noun — Someone who owns or operates a ranch.